Through banning cell phones from school, a new business emerged in NY city, you can leave your phone in a truck in front of the school during the day, and get it back after your day. I’m wondering how this business idea can be extended in our daily life on a voluntary base, can I get rid of my phone for a few hours during the day, and how it would change my life.

One of my friend call me a Language freak, being able to communicate in different languages. Every language has its personality, we’re often trying to find a common language or level in a language to communicate. I think this idea of a common language is restraining our capabilities to express ourselves. There are things we can express the way we want it only in a certain language, it looses its meaning when translated. With the language comes also a thinking, it is not only about words but mostly about what is underneath the language, opening what you can express. There are feelings that I can only say in Japanese, and I’ve never found a proper translation for it. I do sometimes understand myself better in Japanese or English rather than French which is my mother-tongue. Switching from one language to another while speaking with friends is one of the greatest feeling, being able to express exactly what you want to express without any translation.

We shall embrace the language differences more than trying to avoid them or merging to a common language.

A combination between the shopping troley and the public bench, allowing the user to take a chair and seat wher he wants, getting back his coin when giving back the chair. I’m not sure if the concept would really work, 1€ is not much for a good looking chair. The setup would be nice in a semi-public environnement, and probably needs a bit more of control.
A project by the design studio Bernstrand

The project looks however similar from the project of Vincent Wittenberg presented at the Bat Yam biennale of Landscape Urbanism in 2010.Details »